Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-09-02
One EditOr,s Home.

The following is pleasant sketch of the
home of Ebert s. Carman of the Rural
New Yorker, penned by Miss Alice Brown,
private teacher in Mr.. Carman's family
and daughter of Waldo F. Brown, the
agricultural writer
The readers of the Rural are already ia
mlllar with many things concerning this
quiet country place. They know of its
trees and shrubs, its flowers and fruits the
experiments carried on within its limits .
and they have read, year after year. the
writings of its owner. More interesting
than these, because controlling and origi-
mating them, are the family, and their
thought, study and work. The same ones
tons that come to hundreds of other homes
come here to be answered, and are met
fearlessly If not always successfully. Let
what may of blunders and mistakes be
found In home, if it is full of affection
and spirit OF earnest striving after what
is noblest and best, it will be true home.
The members of the household here are
Mr.. and Mrs. Carman, who are already
known to the Rural readers Cerise is the
only daughter, bright, thoughtful blue
eyed girl, not quite 49, Trayers is the
only son, and very proud to have passed
his seventh birthday he has under his tan
gle OF lght-brown curls a mind full of
awakening thoughts, and a child's eager,
wondering questions.
The children study at home and are nv
pupils, The house is small to contain, as it
does, the little school, an office for editorial
work, and during the winter the work and
workers incident TO the preparation of the
Tree seed distribution. There are two par-
Tors, hail, dining room, kitchen and wash
room ON the iirst floor three bed rooms.
the Office, and a hall with a little room Mt
each end, on the second floor The cellar
extends under the whole house The
grounds Immediately around the house are
about two acres in extent. In their midst
is little lake full of living springs. About
the margin of the lake are grouped and
clustered trees and shrubs that droop their
branches toward the water as though they
love 1t, and in their shade grow some of the
delicate native flowers and ferns.
A rowboat and a canoe float upon the
surface OF the lakelet, and at its inlet a rus
TIC Drldse spans the water and forms part
of the carriage drive West of the lake
are the barn and poultry yards, sheltered
by old apple trees, and beyond and beside
them lie the vegetable garden. the Crane
vines, the blackberry, raspberry, c9rrant
and gooseberry bushes and the strawberry
beds. Around the house, which is east of
the lake, are most of the rare trees and
plants that have been selected from the
thousands that during past years have been
tested here Rustic seats in shady retreats
and uncovered arbors offer pleasant rest
ing places, but plain, red, wooden chair
and little low bench under the yellow
wood tree in front of the house attract Mr.
and Mrs, Carman oftenest.
This is real country home, one mile
from railway station and post-oflice, less
than 20 miles from New York, and as free
from city conventionalities as from CITY
noise and confusion 1t is not a place of
summer residence and winter neglect but
a home all the year round, and its members
love the country and nature in all their
changes and seasons.
Having given glimpse of the surround
ings of the home and its inmates, something
OF its life may be interesting, when Mr.. Car
man puts aside editorial work to talk of
other subjects, and Mrs. Carman, after col
Letting recipes, preparing copy, " studying,
attending TO the little boys wants, and set
ting all the household in order, finds time
TO entertain us with music, or to Join in the
walks and the games that are a part of the
pleasure of country life.